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Advice to Budding Journos: Hate Is the Hottest Beat

By Harry Kimball,  Newser Staff

Posted Sep 14, 2009 4:15 PM CDT
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(Newser) – Who says journalism is dead? Sure, newspapers are slashing newsroom staff and shutting down bureaus, Simon Dumenco writes in Advertising Age, but there’s still one booming sector: hate. “Everything is a hate beat these days, because everybody is consumed with hating on everybody else.” And you can specialize:

  • Reality hate: Reality TV stars are hard to tell apart, Dumenco writes. "The only way to do that is to tally and re-tally their most despicable qualities, their vilest actions, so news consumers can properly parse the reality-star spectrum based on varying levels of hateability."

  • Jon and Kate (Plus Hate): Which reality stars hate which others is a whole subgenre worthy of the attention of Good Morning America's Chris Cuomo and Diane Sawyer. "May God rest your soul, Walter Cronkite."
  • Real celebrity hate: Movie stars are like reality stars, but "more hateable because they're usually tons richer."
  • Sports: In the land of Michael Vick and John McEnroe (still?), what's not to hate?
  • Business: In an about-face from the "hagiography business reporters lavished on" Wall Street just recently, now it's all hate, all the time.

Former Lehman CEO Richard S. Fuld Jr.
Former Lehman CEO Richard S. Fuld Jr.   (AP Photo)
Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick.
Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick.   (AP Photo)
Jon Gosselin.
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bacimom
Sep 16, 2009 5:22 AM CDT
I wish we could blame it all on Reality TV
brawne
Sep 15, 2009 1:07 AM CDT
If the truth were a popsicle, I'd give you a lick Dr. Y. Not that I'm married to Hillary, but it was a very interesting time to judge what the news was all about. If unrepentant terrorists had been a real story, Hillary would've been surfing that one home. I never heard a word about the real Obama stuff--the Pritzkers, the Crowns-- only the stupid not true and that's what the news focused on Wright and Ayers crap--because it had no factual basis. I've been listening to liberals frothing at the bit about Halliburton, but when we changed Presidents and went from Halliburton to General Dynamics, I hear no right outrage. Cause they are as manipulated as the rest of us. Don't you get it? When you own stock in all the makers of warfare--you really don't care who is actually president. And when we get some true, unbiased reporting? Rubber boots--hell be freezing over.
brawne
Sep 14, 2009 11:22 AM CDT
Speaking of brown shirts, you really should read up on Hitler and his best friend who started the brown shirts for him. That guy did all the heavy lifting because he thought they shared an ideology. Something that Hitler dissuaded him of when he shot all the brown shirts in the back of the head to gain power after Hitler set them up to take the blame for that fire. So, a brown shirt is just a guy who thinks that he shares an idea with a psychopath. He's not the psychopath--he's the dumb ass follower. I wish that whatever Fox is telling you about ideology that they would occasionally throw in a history course.

 
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